---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING TEACHING LICENSES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING TEACHING LICENSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1594"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1594 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Eads", "Vaught"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02T15:13:28+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T17:19:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2721c5a-e179-40f8-b515-7764274f7c4f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "91440d559d9f052511083157c4fbee51ef05da0223b3d1277ebf8fa20f2c9b19"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas HB 1594 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING TEACHING LICENSES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1594-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1594-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1594** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1594.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **84–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **30–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- L. Eads — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-03-02T15:13:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-02T22:59:16+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T14:40:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-03T14:40:39+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-03T16:24:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T19:08:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T13:32:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:32:49+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:46:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T18:27:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T20:48:54+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:49:23+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:14:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T20:30:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T20:30:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:17:32+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:17:35+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:45:15+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-01T17:19:12+00:00** Notification that HB1594 is now Act 513 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2721c5a-e179-40f8-b515-7764274f7c4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).